Governments around the world are experimenting with giving community members more power to direct policy decisions. From randomly selected deliberative citizen assemblies, to participatory budgeting,…
Jason DicemanSeptember 8, 2020
The most rewarding part of distributing Feedback Frames is seeing all the ways they support inspiring organizations that make positive impacts in the world. One…
Jason DicemanOctober 9, 2019
Feedback Frames are used by facilitators like Bryan Boyle to get honest program evaluations and clear-cut priorities out of strategic planning workshops, collaboratively from both…
Jason DicemanSeptember 17, 2019
Let’s stop pretending voting with stickers is a good technique for adults to effectively prioritize the options. We know better. The chief reasons that sticker-dot…
Jason DicemanFebruary 21, 2019
On January 30, 2019, we did a fun little drop-in demonstration at the member driven Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood. The…
Jason DicemanJanuary 30, 2019
On November 7, 2018, Vélo Canada Bikes invited leaders in North America’s bicycle advocacy, planning, engineering, and bicycle manufacturing and distribution industry to a day-long series…
Jason DicemanNovember 7, 2018
In November 2018, g0v-Toronto, based in Toronto's Civic Tech community, hosted a 2-day capacity-building workshop. The partnership with Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS) and Taiwan's…
Jason DicemanNovember 6, 2018
Below is a letter and photos we received from Zach Dripps of the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) - a regional planning organization in…
Jason DicemanOctober 23, 2018
One of the unique features of Feedback Frames is that the results can consistently be tabulated and compared quantitatively. Simply count the number of tokens…
Jason DicemanJuly 17, 2018
Feedback Frames are a hardware solution that is an upgrade on my previous paper based invention called Idea Rating Sheets. Using the specially designed paper…
Jason DicemanApril 17, 2018
Feedback Frames are sometimes called "idea rating frames" which is fine by us! Idea rating is a form of range voting. Participants give each option…
Jason DicemanMarch 25, 2018
2017 was a great year for Feedback Frames. After the public launch in the fall of 2016, with a fun video, and the accepting of…
Jason DicemanJanuary 30, 2018
Voting with tokens in Feedback Frames The Regional Municipality of Durham (Ontario, Canada) carried out 2 large face-to-face workshop sessions using Feedback Frames. The 70…
Jason DicemanApril 17, 2017
High school students put down their smartphones to share opinions using tokens. As part of a Marketing class, students in an Aurora, Ontario high school…
Jason DicemanFebruary 1, 2017
Opportunity knocked this fall. I was invited to demonstrate Feedback Frames at the 6th Annual Summit on Public Consultation and Engagement. It is the largest…
Jason DicemanDecember 7, 2016
Facilitating facilitators for Facilitation Week. Really! In just 15 minutes they found consensus about consensus.
Jason DicemanOctober 21, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM5PL6SkF2M I'm pleased to share with you a fun 5-minute video I used to launch my fall 2016 crowdfunding campaign for the original full feature…
Jason DicemanOctober 6, 2016
Over 25 professional fresh water geeks created a prioritized consensus list of 40 topics for future research. What a great way to end a…
Jason DicemanJune 10, 2016
Secret voting avoids peer pressure. On June 6, 2016 Mrs. Davidson invited her grade 12 English class to work in pairs to write one page…
Jason DicemanJune 6, 2016